Media Consumption, Three Day Weekends, The Summer Effect

[crankyoldman]

Alright, so the three day weekend was glorious, and if I weren't so excited to be going to a Pride in an actual city I'd be a little bummed I wasn't getting another three day weekend to myself. I don't even miss the extra money, really (and considering how my work was so behind on getting me all of my PTO hours I'm essentially getting bonus monies this month). Clearly I really needed to dial the fuck back and take a chill pill.

I've been working on all sorts of non-computer dependent projects because it's been good for me. Have just the finishing construction work on a couple of aprons, and have all the fabric for my Kuja costume purchased though not cut out yet. I have a bolero pattern that I think I can turn into his shorty jacket. It's going to be interesting (but not terribly hard as I am not particularly endowed) finding a tasteful way to hide my chesticles.

Been watching The Legend of Korra (which has enough awesome outside of the stupid teen relationship drama they shoe-horned in for me to enjoy it, I mean LIN BEI FONG FUCK YEAH), listening to Garbage's Not Your Kind of People, and watching a lot of male-centric "relationship" movies as research for something I want to write (basically more of this).

And I've also been listening to a lot of my local radio station, which with the exception of some new songs here and there is essentially unchanged from when I was a teenager. This gives my days a weird sort of "summer effect" of them being endless in a way that is a little uncomfortable, considering that most of the summers of my youth were spent in my yard or my room, reading and then listening to Blue Mage whine on the phone about guys and making collages on my wall.

I may have to listen to other stations or start doing more things when I have time to myself. XD

Comments

[novel_machinist]

Or make a really kick ass collage.

[whitemage]

Yeah, and dedicate it to Blue Mage and her love of ogres. Summer really IS endless!

[crankyoldman]

You know I do have all those Anthopologie catalogs and the Atlanta Cutlery and Museum Replicas ones....

[classysleuth]

Has the romance in Korra been toned down from the eariler episodes?

[crankyoldman]

There hasn't been a SUDDENLY RELATIONSHIPS episode again, some of it is in the background but it's like they had that, and were like "now back to the action".

And bonus, Korra and Lin Bei Fong were working TOGETHER. And Asami and Korra were getting along. I've also not seen the latest episode yet, though, so we may yet get hit over the head with poorly written teen romance shenanigans.

It's not that I mind the existence of it (hello, teenagers) it's just the application of it that's bothered me. But I've been distracted enough by other plotlines to not completely give up on it. I really gotta wonder why the relationshippy bits have been so inconsistent, cause they did a good job with that sort of thing in the original series. :/

tl;dr It's not been as blatantly silly, but it may be again, for now I've seen enough things going on that I've liked to not give up on it. And I'm especially looking forward to them developing the Lin-Korra semi-mentorship some more, because I'm very glad they have settled their differences.

[classysleuth]

Thanks. I'll probably check it out again.